Hey all,
Greetings from So Cal.
I bought a DJI mini 4k for myself for Christmas.
I am coming from almost 10 years of owning a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus. It has been a good drone. I did some mods over the years and was very careful about setting my home point before I flew. I had to replace those batteries a few years ago. $$$
Recently it stopped giving me the live video feed. It would still record video but I couldn’t see it while I was flying. I was flying blind. I think that is kind of a common problem with these drones and I think there a lots of fixes and work arounds on the internet, but I knew it was getting old and this was probably just the beginning of old age problems. So I started shopping.
Sam’s club had a DJI mini for like $280.00 but it was only 2.7k. If I was going to do this then I wanted 4k video. I found the mini 4k on Amazon for $240.00 and I jumped on it. I bought the drone, controller, and a battery in a kit. And I bought an additional battery and a case and some spare props.
To be fair I think the Sam’s Club combo was the fly more kit. I bought just the drone itself then made my own fly more kit.
It’s only Dec 2 so I don’t have it yet. It’s a Christmas present. Is there anything I need to know? Anything I am not asking? I am not sure how to charge the batteries yet, I did not buy that charging dock thing. Do I need to?
I think it is under the legal weight limit so I don’t have to register it with the fcc or anything, right? I had to register my P2V+. With the P2V+ I had apps that I could use to get permission from the fcc to fly in a specific area. I don’t think I need to do that with the 4k drone, right? If it’s not even registered.
I think I might have a problem with the DJI fly app. It’s not on Google Play so I had to download it from the DJI site. I got it installed but it won’t run on my phone. Does anybody have any experience with this? I can’t be the first one lol…
With my P2V+ I had DJI Ultimate Flight and Litchi. DJI Ultimate flight was my favorite but I don’t think it is available any more. I still have Litchi and it looks like it will work so maybe I will be ok?
Thanks in advance. I can’t wait for Christmas this year!
Greetings from So Cal.
I bought a DJI mini 4k for myself for Christmas.
I am coming from almost 10 years of owning a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus. It has been a good drone. I did some mods over the years and was very careful about setting my home point before I flew. I had to replace those batteries a few years ago. $$$
Recently it stopped giving me the live video feed. It would still record video but I couldn’t see it while I was flying. I was flying blind. I think that is kind of a common problem with these drones and I think there a lots of fixes and work arounds on the internet, but I knew it was getting old and this was probably just the beginning of old age problems. So I started shopping.
Sam’s club had a DJI mini for like $280.00 but it was only 2.7k. If I was going to do this then I wanted 4k video. I found the mini 4k on Amazon for $240.00 and I jumped on it. I bought the drone, controller, and a battery in a kit. And I bought an additional battery and a case and some spare props.
To be fair I think the Sam’s Club combo was the fly more kit. I bought just the drone itself then made my own fly more kit.
It’s only Dec 2 so I don’t have it yet. It’s a Christmas present. Is there anything I need to know? Anything I am not asking? I am not sure how to charge the batteries yet, I did not buy that charging dock thing. Do I need to?
I think it is under the legal weight limit so I don’t have to register it with the fcc or anything, right? I had to register my P2V+. With the P2V+ I had apps that I could use to get permission from the fcc to fly in a specific area. I don’t think I need to do that with the 4k drone, right? If it’s not even registered.
I think I might have a problem with the DJI fly app. It’s not on Google Play so I had to download it from the DJI site. I got it installed but it won’t run on my phone. Does anybody have any experience with this? I can’t be the first one lol…
With my P2V+ I had DJI Ultimate Flight and Litchi. DJI Ultimate flight was my favorite but I don’t think it is available any more. I still have Litchi and it looks like it will work so maybe I will be ok?
Thanks in advance. I can’t wait for Christmas this year!
